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Teo Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

not feel like oneself

An American teacher of English says, "When you are sick, you don't feel like yourself." I've consulted several dictionaries, but I cannot find the phrase "feel like oneself." Is there really a phrase "not feel like oneself" in standard English?

A similar phrase "not feel oneself" means "to be feeling slightly sick."
  

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I feel as sick as a parrot. I feel under the weather I feel like going out 2nite. I do not feel very well.

  • I feel as sick as a parrot.
  • I feel under the weather I feel like going out 2nite.
  • I do not feel very well.
  • We do not say anything even remotely resembling feel like myself well.
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I feel as sick as a parrot.
I feel under the weather
I feel like going out 2nite.
I do not feel very well.
We do not say anything even remotely resembling feel like myself well.

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>I've consulted several dictionaries, but I cannot find the phrase

I don't think you performed a proper search.

Search at Yahoo with:
"feel like oneself" dictionary
(the quotation marks are important to group together the words of the idiom)
and you will find appropriate dictionary pages describing the idiom, such as:

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feel like myself is fine.
feel like myself well is impossible.

CJ

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